Mets fans better hope Steve Cohen values free agents as much as he values art.
Cohen, a billionaire hedge fund manager and minority investor in the Mets, is in negotiations to acquire up to 80% of the club. That would give him control of the franchise’s operations and push aside the stingy Wilpon family who Mets fans have despised for years.
Cohen has way too much money, which makes him the perfect man to own a baseball team. He’s worth about $13.6 billion and lives in a massive nine-bedroom, 16-bathroom mansion in Greenwich, Conn.